The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-11

and grasses of the vast prairie land
of which | am speaking; for they
surely, and on the instant, enlarged
the possibilities,-nay, the certain
ties. of Canada as to her future pop
ulations being beyond any fixed
measurement.
THE FUTURE POPULATION OF CAM
ADA.
The question may be asked,
whence is this great Canadian popu.
lation to come? How is tie real
Canada to be peopled?
But the Canada that has been nay,
that is today, is not tho real Canada.
Americans should not forget this.
The real Canada of the future lies
no. east and north, but west Of On
tario. Winnipeg, and not Montreal,
is the geographical center. Its com
mercial center is not Toronto, but
Chicago. North and west of Lake
Superior lies vast area of territory
as productive as to the nature of its
soil, aud as attractive to civilization,
as any equal extent of territory on
the face of the globe. From it,
eleven States, as large as the great
Safe OF Illinois, can be carved.
Here, more than 2O,0OO,0 900 Of people
will 10 a few years, comparatively,
find their home.
In answer to their application, vii
lagos will spring up and cities arise !;
for nature is there 10 prolific Of
products which the markets of the
world crave, and resident man needs;
the clima;e is so salubrious and the
possibilities of INSTRUMENTATION
so stimulative to wealth and enter
prise that, in few brief years, i'm
migration in wide and deep tides will
flow over the southern boundary into
the great arabic basin Of the West.
| say the southern boundary, for
whence is the population Of this vast
area OF productive country to come
from the North2 There is no popu-
la,ion 10 that direction to draw from,
reply. From the East2 Canada,
| answer, has 100000, all told, to-
day, aud not SOC, 900 citizens to spare.
From Europe2 Beyond doubt, q GER
tain per cent. will come thence. but
the line OF their movement will be
through New York, Philadelphia
add Baltimore, and not through Hal
flax or the round about course Of the
mouth of the st. Lawrence. But the
great majority, eight-tenths OF the
future population Of the Red river
region and its outlying sections, will
come from the great Republic to the
south OF the "thin line OF red which
alone separates il from tho fast
swarming population OF the States.
The great States west OF he Ale.
ghsnies are fast filling up. La few
decades they will be full TO tho brim,
aud then will occur the ineyitable--
the overflow northward. The sons
Of the men who own the great wheat
fields Of the American West today
will own the great wheat fields Of the
Canadian West twenty or thirty
years from today; aud Canada will
be overruu and settled by a great,
peaceful invasion from the South,
as the Roman Empire was overrun
by the warlike invasion that swept
down upon her cities aud her plains
from the barbaric North.
| anticipate the time, and that, too,
within twenty-five years when the
territory now known geographically
aud politically as Canada, will have
within its dominioDs a population Of
from $4,000, 900 to 20.000,0O0 souls;
and the causes which lead on and up
to this stupeudous result are more
numerous and efficient than those
which made il probable. ia 1910, that
Illinois would multiply her popula.
ton as she has, or that Chicago
would exist in her present magnif
cent roportions. And this vast and
rapid Increase OF her population will
settle the question OF Canadian po-
litical connection in short order for
does any man suppose, or can any
sane man imagine that Canada, in
that day-not remote. remember, but
nigh, even within the lifetime Of him
who writes aud you who read this
prodiction-can any sane person im.
agine, say, that Canada in that Jay
will be colony OF Britain only, aud
nothing beyond mere dependency
OF the Engllsh CROWN No, she will
be, she must be, an Independent ma.
ton among the nations OF the world
the equal among many great ones, a
peer of their glory aud power, or else
a part OF the great Republic, voted
bodily into such profitable, aud |
may say, glorious conjunction by tho
thousands aud thousands OF her citi.
Eens who we're born aud bred under
the stars aud stripes; or else, having
come from foreign parts, are in love
with It's institutions, as nineteen.
tweutieths Of the omigrating world
is today.
But IL has been said that the col.
ouial feeling is still strong in Can.
ada, aud that the ties Of sentiment
which bind her to England show 20
sigos Of weakening. All this is non.
sense; IL is true only IN part. and a
very small part at that; and the
reason Of this is easily perceived.
Canada has a population, In round
numbers, Of 1000, 900; Of this total
100000 are French, whose fathers
aud mothers hated England. aud
fought her heroically. These have
no love Tor England, aud don't pre-.
tend 10 have. Or Irish there are
10000, perhaps. Surely, no Que
would claim them 10 be- Of the En-.
glish pirtyl Then, OF Germans,
there are 10000 aud more; of la.
dams aud other na'iobalitics, 300, 900.
SO, then, OF the i,0OO,OOO total there
can be but 1000, 900 Of Eoglish dc.
scent aud connection. But, Of this,
more than half, surely, probably two.
thirds are Canadian bora. aud care
no more for Eaglaad aud the English
Queen than an American boy born
OF English parents. In the light OF
this brief analysis Of Canlda's popu.
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